Hickory Dickory Dock

Phew!  Busy week... So: simple, simple, simple flannel for me this week...

What's simpler than Hickory Dickory Dock?  Especially when Judy Sierra provides a ready to print pattern??  I am pretty sure I downloaded her Favorite Flannel Board Stories free at some point last year, but now I can't find a link to share.  Her patterns are basic and remind me of the 1980s for some reason, but I like them enough to use them when I'm short on time.

So there's the mouse going up, and there he is going down...  Not much else to say!

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Five Little Mice

I have had these little squeakers ready to go for many, many months--except for the mama mouse.  Before some quick adjustments tonight, she looked sort of like a gray, long-tailed dog.  She only had one ear, and it was the wrong shape.  So I trimmed off her nose, peeled off that puppy ear, shortened her tail, made her nose pink, added a smile, and put two mouse ears on.  Ahhh.  Much better!

Here's the mama before I fixed her--yikes!

I found a couple of songs to go along with this. I can't for the life of me figure out where I got the first one...  Please let me know if I stole it from you!

To the tune of Five Little Ducks:

Five little mice went out to play

Through the fields and far away.

Mama mouse called "squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!"

Then one little mouse played hide and seek.

Count down to zero, then...

Five little mice played hide and seek

Didn't come home when their mama squeaked.

                                     But when the big cat started to hiss,

They all ran home as quick as this (clap!)

I'd use my kitten puppet to go along with this, and I think I'll make (or borrow from another set) some items for the mice to hide behind.

The second one is from Kididdles:

Five little mice came out to play

Gathering crumbs along the way

Out came pussycat sleek and fat

Four little mice go scampering back

(continue, counting down)

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Mouse's First Fall

I love the simplicity of Mouse's First Fall.  It's the first flannel board story I created without copying someone else's idea, so I'm making it my first post on this blog.

I scanned a page from the board book and traced Mouse and Minka.  I used clipart for inspiration for the leaves.

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The picture below shows how I store most of my flannel board stories:  a zip lock bag, the words to the story, and a labeled piece of card stock cut down to fit in the bag.  Sometimes if there aren't a lot of words, I just write them out onto the card stock.  Sometimes a story or felt set will have various ways to be used, so all the different songs/words/chants/etc. are printed out and stored in the bag too.